ACBL Live Pending

Posted on December 26, 2025 by Lee Lin

Our favorite ACBL Live tournament reporting is having some tech issues today. For now the directors are sending results from our the Winter 2025 Regional to us here at the GNYBA website team to post. Stay tuned.

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Regional Countdown: One More Week

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Lee Lin

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Friday Dec 26: Open / GoldRush Pairs, Bracketed Teams
Sat Dec 27: Bracketed Pairs and Bracketed Teams
Sun Dec 28: Two-Day Swiss Qualifying Rounds, Open / Gold Rush Pairs
Mon Dec 29: Two-Day Swiss Final Round + Pairs and Teams
All Days Start at 10am

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NAP Flight B Prelim Results

Posted on October 26, 2025 by Lee Lin

Here are the results from Flight B. One significant innovation was start time: by starting at 10am, the morning finished at 1pm with the director having discretion over the afternoon starting time. In this case, the District strongly favored a short lunch break with everyone starting back up at 2pm. The entire day wrapped up just after 5pm.

Prelim Results D24 NAP-B Representatives:

Michael Schwartz and Janie Woo ($1400 travel award)
Sam Bellows and Wendy Nickerson ($600 travel award)
Richard Kassar and Shlomit Rind (3rd place)
Lee Lin and Vladimir Kolbun (4th place)

Alternates:

Yuchen Xu and Leon Yu
Michael Krevor and Charles Bilich
Barbara Ullman and Samuel Kopel
Laszlo Seress and John Moscow

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Unit Annual Membership Meeting 2025

Posted on October 24, 2025 by GNYBA

The GNYBA invites all active members in Unit 155 to attend the annual membership meeting. As usual, for purposes of obtaining an easy quorum and also recognizing few people would come any other time, we will hold the meeting during our December regional.

Specifically, the meeting will begin at Saturday, December 27th at 2:50pm at the New York Marriott Marquis – 1535 Broadway, on the 7th floor in the main playing room. We expect the meeting will be shorter than 10 minutes, but many unit officers and board members will be present if anyone has questions to ask afterward and prior to the beginning of the next session.

The primary agenda of the meeting is to confirm the board and officer slate for 2026. While the nominating committee will propose most board positions and officer posts, any active member in ACBL Unit 155 is eligible to join the board. According to the bylaws, there are a few vacant seats before we reach our maximum of 30 board members.

If you are interested in joining the board, you may obtain 50 signatures from active unit members and submit the petition to our secretary or president. A potentially easier path is to simply talk to your favorite board member and have them circulate your name.

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Championship Flight D24 NAP Prelim Results

Posted on October 5, 2025 by Lee Lin

Congratulations to the pairs qualifying to represent New York City and Long Island in the championship flight of the North American Open Pairs national finals this coming February 25th, 2026 in St. Louis, MO.

EDIT: Results are on ACBL Live

Preliminary unofficial results:

Jacqueline Chang and Iulian Rotaru ($1400 travel subsidy)
Adam Wildavsky and Sheldon Tan ($600 travel subsidy)
Adam Kaplan and Jack Boge

Next Three Alternates:

Raluca Nistor and Igor Savchenko
Lucy Zhang and Adam Parrish
John Hurd and Gillian Miniter

First session prelim results

Unofficial First Session Results

Hope to see many players at the other NAP events:

0-3000 Flight B on Oct 26th

0-6000 Flight A and 0-750 Flight C on Nov 2nd

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Updated Flyer for 2025 D24 NAP

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Lee Lin

We have updated the 2025 D24 NAP Flyer.

Main changes are clarifying what was previouly posted to gnyba.org/nap. Here is the latest summary once again:

2025-2026 NORTH AMERICAN PAIRS

District 24 Final

110 East 55th St, 6th Fl, New York, NY 10022

10:00am 1st session + TBD 2nd session

Championship Flight: Oct 5th

Flight B – Oct 26th

Flights A & C – Nov 2nd

District 24 (New York City and Long Island) will hold a tournament to determine who will represent the district at the ACBL Spring NABC in St. Louis in February and March 2026. To see which flights you have qualified for and to help you look for a partner go to “NAP Current Qualifiers” on www.gnyba.org/nap  

The top 3 pairs in the Open Flight and Flight A and top 4 in Flights B & C qualify to the national finals.

The cost to play is $120 per pair which covers the full day.  Cash required.

 

All Flights:  110 East 55th St., 6th Floor, New York NY (Honors Bridge Club)

New this year:  There are now four flights in NAP, including an open flight on October 5th and a new 0-6000 Flight A on October 26th.  Flight B and C also have new MP limits.
Championship Flight Oct 5th
Flight A – 0-6000 MPs Nov 2nd   1st Place: 32 Gold Points* $1400 travel subsidy / pair   2nd Place: 24 Gold Points $600 travel subsidy / pairFlight B – 0-3000 MPs Oct 26th   1st Place: 22.50 Gold Points* $1400 travel subsidy / pair   2nd Place: 16.88 Gold Points $600 travel subsidy / pairFlight C – NLM < 750 Nov 2nd   1st Place: 15 Gold/Red Points* $1400 travel subsidy / pair   2nd Place: 11 Gold/Red Points $600 travel subsidy / pair
*Pairs that qualify but choose not to compete in the NAP National Finals during the St. Louis 2026 NABCs will receive the Masterpoint awards but not the travel subsidy.

Players must be members of Units 155 or 242 (New York City or Long Island) as of June 1 of 2025. Eligible players may compete in the district finals for multiple flights, but may only represent the district at the national finals in one flight.

New start time this year: the first session will begin at 10am. The 2nd session will begin after a brief lunch break per director instructions (around 2:15 – 2:30pm).   

For questions or to help find a partner contact Bill Dinner at bdinner@yahoo.com or the GNYBA NAP Committee at gnt@gnyba.org    More information at gnyba.org/nap

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D24 GNT Tentative Dates 2025-2026

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Lee Lin

Save the date for this year’s GNT Opening Rounds. As usual, surviving teams will schedule their own KOs, but we HIGHLY recommend the Flight A and C teams try to use Saturday, Feb 21st as a KO date, as we will already have the club rented with a director present to handle any and all matters.

Championship (Open) Flight – Unlimited Masterpoints
Opening Weekend – Saturday, Feb 21 + Sunday, Feb 22
Flight A
Opening Round
Feb 1st  

1st Place:
40 Gold Points		Flight B
Opening Round     
Feb 22nd   

1st Place:  
33.50 Gold
$1000 travel subsidy  		Flight C
Opening Round
Feb 1st  

1st Place:  
20 Gold/Red Points
$1000 travel subsidy

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Packed Fall 2025 Schedule

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Lee Lin

There are many events slated for Greater New York bridge players in the coming months. We will highlight some of them here.

Pro-Am Teams: Sunday, September 28th

There is still time to play in the Pro-Am Teams event on September 28th. Email proam@gnyba.org if you have questions.

NAP Open Flight: Sunday, October 5th at 10am

One of the premier District events each year, the Open Flight NAP welcomes all D24 players to compete among the very best. For all NAP events, club qualification is required and your name should appear on the NAP Club Qualifier list for D24 (we know there are some cases that slipped through cracks, make sure you have the game link saved if it applies to you). As always, you will win generous amounts of gold points if you make it to the overall winners of the one-session event, and unlike GNTs, the District finals are over and done in just one day (48-54 boards). The top three pairs will qualify to the national finals to win platinum points against the top pairs of every other District in ACBL.

NAP Flight B (0-3000): Sunday, October 26th at 10am

The increasingly popular 0-3000 gang in our District grows larger and more competitive by the year. The top four pairs will be invited to represent New York City and Long Island in the national finals in St. Louis. Even those who do not plan to go are welcome to compete in the district finals and win gold points. You are also welcome to play in multiple flights. We expect a lot of overlap of players who are playing A and B or B and C. There might be be folks trying for three flights: Open, A, and B or Open, B, and C. The more the merrier, but if you win in multiple flights, you may only represent the District in one flight. As usual, Flight B and C are held on the final weekend in the national finals: March 7th and March 8th 2026.

NAP Flight A (0-6000) : Sunday, November 2nd at 10am

The all new Flight A welcomes players with 0 to 6000 Masterpoints to complete and win generous gold points. Also new this year, the national finals will award 5% platinum points for overall award winners during the Feb 25th and Feb 26th 2026 event in St. Louis, MO. In prior years, platinum points were only awarded for NABC+ and 10K NABC events. Three pairs from D24 will be selected to represent us in the national finals

NAP Flight C (0-750 nlm) : Sunday, November 2nd at 10am

Also on the same day as Flight A, the Flight C District finals are for those with fewer than 750 Masterpoints as of May 31st, 2025. As always with Flight C, you also must not have achieved the rank of Life Master, which applies whether you achieved LM at 500 or the grandfathered 300. Awards at the district level are half gold and half red. The District will invite the top 4 pairs to attend the national finals in March 2026.

Winter 2025 Regional: Dec 26th thru Dec 29th

The NYC Winter Regional is back and will once again be held in Times Square. The Dates are Dec 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th for four days of holiday bridge fun.

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Flyer for Winter 2025 Regional: Dec 26-29 2025

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Lee Lin

Here is the latest flyer for the Dec 2025 regional.

Same Venue: Marriott Marquis

As with last year, we are holding it at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square! Of course, there are pros and cons. The morning is usually no problem at all, but the lunch hour and especially the departure phase can be a bit challenging. Pro tip: head west if you can when exiting the hotel, not east. You can avoid the full force of Times Square during peak times (plus tourism near annual peak times).

New Events: Bracketed Pairs

The most significant changes to the schedule is the introduction of Bracketed Pairs, which is relatively new but has been very popular in the last year or so. The idea is similar to bracketed teams. You sign up for the event and the directors will place all of the pairs into several brackets. You will be playing with those who have similar Masterpoint totals as you.

Technically, you add up you and your partner’s Masterpoints and your opponents will have a similar sum. That pushes a lot of pros into the upper brackets so that those who are truly mid-flight or lower will play against our peers. The Masterpoint award also uses a similar strength-of-field formula as the Bracketed Round Robin.

Another great benefit: there are no longer arbitrary cutoffs that define intermediate, advanced, and expert players. Those who cross the 750 threshold won’t automatically be thrown into an open section, you will simply be pairs with others in a similar range.

Duplicated Boards for Team Games

The tournament committee is actively exploring pre-duplicated boards for team events. For those who don’t know, that means you will get hand records for the team games instead of the usual “shuffle and play” style. It’s also kind of fun when all of your friends at the other tables are all playing the same boards at the same time. You’ll have much more to discuss after the game. On the flip side, anyone who made a bad mistake will be fully outed; it’s possible a certain faction likes team games more because there is plenty of blame to go around without much way to pinpoint the true culprit.

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Pro-Am Returns, Sunday September 28th

Posted on August 16, 2025 by Lee Lin

The Pro-Am is back, also know as the GNYBA Pro-Am-Am-Am. It’s a great event in which teams consist of three newer players and one Life Master (“the pro”). You may register as a group of 3 and we will assign you a volunteer pro. You are also allowed to register your full team of four if you are ready to go with your own Life Master captain.

Here is the Pro-Am Flyer for September 28th, 2025.

Registration Link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevX1Q0pOTC0rk5hH-hN4_M9UtK0rc1Sr3WvwiYGzW87kjXTg/viewform?usp=dialog

Payment Link:
https://buy.stripe.com/28o8xQ67ddaXfh69AD

One big change is the new Sunday late morning timing (11:00am), which should be more convenient for many folks compared to the previous two Friday night Pro-Am events. Here are some photos of the winning teams from the prior Pro-Am events.

Pro-Am from Fall 2024
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